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ON THIS DAY
1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, died.
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October 25, 2025
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If Trump is Reagan's heir, US conservatism is dead
As thin-skinned as ever, Donald Trump has taken umbrage at Canada's province of Ontario, for faithfully quoting his Republican predecessor Ronald Reagan, an icon of US conservatism, as saying tariffs “hurt every American”.
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October 25, 2025
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After two years in an Israeli jail, he returned to find his family dead and home gone
Palestinians coming back to Gaza after being held without charge tell Nedal Hamdouna and Bel Trew how their lives have been destroyed and claim abuse by IDF soldiers
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October 25, 2025
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Reclaiming her true voice
Publishing a book posthumously can be an ethical minefield, But with 'Nobody's Girl', Virginia Giuffre's startling memoir, a victim can finally speak freely
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October 25, 2025
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Reform-led council plans to spend £75,000 on 164 flags
The Reform UK-led Nottinghamshire County Council is splurging more than £75,000 on new flag installations, prompting criticism the money could be better spent on services for local people.
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October 25, 2025
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Rising Tory's anti-migrant talk is straight out the 1930s
It doesn’t take much these days to be marked out as a “rising star” in the Conservative Party, or what remains of it. But in recent weeks, the hitherto unknown MP for the Weald of Kent, Katie Lam, has surged from the distant shadows into the spotlight, chiefly because of her robust views on immigration.
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October 25, 2025
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Blood of immortals pumped through its rubbery length
Frieda Hughes comes face to face with a garden 'enemy'
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October 25, 2025
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Big Tech helps fund $300m ballroom for White House
The full list of donors to Donald Trump's $300m (£225m) White House ballroom project has been published, with Big
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October 25, 2025
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‘My sheer bluntness makes people uncomfortable’
Rebecca Ferguson, sweary Swede and fervid mother to the Lisan al-Gaib, has kicked off her boots and sent them flying.
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October 25, 2025
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'I'm living with a tumour as big as a golf ball in my head
David Aird had suffered from migraines for years when he learned his diagnosis. It blew his world apart, but also means he no longer sweats the small stuff
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October 25, 2025
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Red on red: would Powell be thorn in Starmer's side?
Sean O'Grady on the likely new Labour deputy leader
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October 25, 2025
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How Labour can pull out of its electoral death spiral
The result of the Senedd by-election in Caerphilly was a triumph for Plaid Cymru, pointing towards the nationalists taking over the government of Wales for the first time at next year's elections.
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October 25, 2025
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Trump halts Canada trade talks over ‘fraudulent’ ad
Donald Trump has announced trade talks with Canada will cease, claiming the country “fraudulently” used an ad featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
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October 25, 2025
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SINO THE TIMES
Sean O'Grady finds much to like in the Omoda 9 SHS, a plug-in hybrid from a relatively new Chinese marque
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October 25, 2025
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A political earthquake in Wales has sent shockwaves through Westminster
The most obvious conclusion to be drawn from the result of the Caerphilly Senedd by-election is that the Labour government is in deep trouble.
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October 25, 2025
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Asylum seeker found guilty of murdering hotel worker
An asylum seeker who was seen dancing and laughing after stabbing a hotel worker 23 times on a railway station platform has been found guilty of murder.
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October 25, 2025
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Epping hotel migrant freed from prison by mistake
A migrant who sexually assaulted a woman and a 14-year-old girl while he was living at a hotel in Epping - sparking major protests - has been freed from prison early by mistake. Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported, but was mistakenly released yesterday.
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October 25, 2025
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PM vows to take Russian oil and gas off global markets
Allied nations have pledged to act to take Russian oil and gas off the global market, Sir Keir Starmer said, after leaders of the “coalition of the willing” gathered with Volodymyr Zelensky in London.
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October 25, 2025
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Chelsea's teenage star gives Maresca a nice problem
It was spectacular but the early impressions are that he is spectacular.
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October 24, 2025
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ROCK AND ROTE
The Boss's life is reduced to cliche in 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere', while Josh O'Connor shines in offbeat art-heist tale 'The Mastermind'
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October 24, 2025
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Daly and Winkleman to exit Strictly at the end of series
Zoe Ball and Rylan Clark among favourites to replace pair
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October 24, 2025
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Streeting: Strike action only plays into hands of Farage
Wes Streeting has hit out at the doctors’ union after it announced a fresh round of strikes, warning it is a “slap in the face” for NHS staff and will play directly into the hands of Nigel Farage.
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October 24, 2025
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In Gaza a prosthesis is not just a device, it is a lifeline'
Harriette Boucher reports on one of the few prosthetic limb specialists still able to work in the strip after Israel's assaults
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October 24, 2025
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Ex-Labour minister calls for Phillips to resign, as PM contacts grooming victims
Sir Keir Starmer is personally intervening to contact victims amid growing turmoil in the national grooming gangs inquiry, after a former Labour minister joined growing calls for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to resign.
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October 24, 2025
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Is Britain really prepared for the rising nuclear threat?
A new film depicts a US president with just minutes to react to a missile attack. Defence analyst Francis Tusa argues it’s not such a fanciful idea and that the UK has work to do
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October 24, 2025
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US sanctions on Russian oil send message to Kremlin
The measure was unveiled just one day after Trump said he would cancel the 'wasted' meeting with Putin in Budapest
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October 24, 2025
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Why does returned migrant prefer Britain to France?
Sometimes a narrative about a hapless government can develop that means even the most apparently trivial of news stories gains much greater traction for being set in the context of a wider pattern of failure, misjudgement and setbacks.
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October 24, 2025
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How does the peloton solve a problem like Pogacar?
Already a man with a serious claim to the title of greatest of all time, can anyone catch the Slovenian
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October 24, 2025
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Putin finally pays the price for pushing Trump too far
Russian president Vladimir Putin is attempting to overcome many seemingly impossible tasks in his drive to challenge the West and reestablish Moscow’s dominion over its former empire.
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October 24, 2025
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Palace humbled as Larnaca disrupt European campaign
When the wind tore through Crystal Palace's latest message of defiance against Uefa, knocking over a handful of the ultras propping the flailing banner up, it felt almost symbolic.
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